Vijay Shekhar Sharma, CEO of digital payments platform Paytm, has taken a particular swipe at OpenAI’s popular AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT. He said that “ChatGPT is like speaking Taylor Swift to a grandpa who is from the era of Bono and Roger Waters.” He forwarded a comparison between the results of the current issue X versus Brazil, generated by ChatGPT and Perplexity AI, made by the latter’s CEO Aravind Srinivas.
In his post on X, Sharma wrote, “Chat GPT is like speaking Taylor Swift to a grandpa who is from the era of Bono and Roger Waters. Perplexity is eternally intelligent. Then and now.” He backed up his opinion on ChatGPT with a statement pointing out why OpenAI’s chatbot lags behind competitors like Perplexity AI when it comes to offering updates on the latest trends. “This is because Chat GPT has a limit on pulling data from its models up to a date. So for recent events, it won’t be logically good,” he said.
Sharma’s two cents on ChatGPT came in response to Srinivas’ comparison between the two AI chatbots. The CEO of Perplexity AI made the comparison in response to a user who asked him if there was any “compelling reason” to prefer Perplexity AI over ChatGPT. “Any compelling reason why one should choose Perplexity over ChatGPT for search?” he said. His response was even a plug to another conversation started by Chrisman Frank, co-founder and CEO of Synthesis School, an AI-powered online tutor. He said, “I’m late to the party, but Perplexity has replaced Google search for me. What’s more, I find myself using search more often. I hadn’t realized that I was subconsciously avoiding search because of how terrible Google is.”
Srinivas launched Perplexity AI in August 2022 in partnership with Johnny Ho, Denis Yarats, and Andy Konwinski. He previously worked at OpenAI as an AI researcher, while the rest of the co-founders held various AI and engineering roles at Meta, Quora, and Databricks. The company is currently valued at over $1 billion following the recent funding round led by former Y Combinator AI director Daniel Gross.
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